The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket ...A collection of plays, each of which has an Innopac Index record, by English authors. Most plays have a special t.p. and engraved general t.p. representing a scene from the play and a frontispiece showing an actor in a leading role. Most plays have information about the author, criticism of the play and a list of the actors. |
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Its fable verges on impossibility , but the incidents which arise from it could never
have occurred . Granting that the two Antipholises and the two Dromios were as
like , as twins often are , would their clothes , even the fashion of their habits ...
Its fable verges on impossibility , but the incidents which arise from it could never
have occurred . Granting that the two Antipholises and the two Dromios were as
like , as twins often are , would their clothes , even the fashion of their habits ...
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Misguided by my hopes , in doubt I stray , To seek what I , perchance , may never
find . May not the cruel hand of destiny , Ere this , have render'd all my searches
vain ? If so , how wretched has my folly made me ! In luckless hour , alas !
Misguided by my hopes , in doubt I stray , To seek what I , perchance , may never
find . May not the cruel hand of destiny , Ere this , have render'd all my searches
vain ? If so , how wretched has my folly made me ! In luckless hour , alas !
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Adr , O , special reasoning ! well may they be patient , Who never had a cause for
anger given them ! How easily we cure another's grief ! But , were we burden'd
with like weight of woe , As much , or more , we should ourselves complain .
Adr , O , special reasoning ! well may they be patient , Who never had a cause for
anger given them ! How easily we cure another's grief ! But , were we burden'd
with like weight of woe , As much , or more , we should ourselves complain .
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The time was once , when thou , unurg'd , would'st vow , That never words were
music to thine ear , That never object , pleasing in thine eye , That never touch
were welcome to thine hand , . That never food , well savour'd to the taste ,
Unless I ...
The time was once , when thou , unurg'd , would'st vow , That never words were
music to thine ear , That never object , pleasing in thine eye , That never touch
were welcome to thine hand , . That never food , well savour'd to the taste ,
Unless I ...
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I never once bespoke it . Angelo . Not once , nor twice , but twenty times you have
. Go home with it , and please your wife withal . About your supper time I'll visit
you , And then receive my money for the bracelet . Ant . of Syr . I pray you , sir ...
I never once bespoke it . Angelo . Not once , nor twice , but twenty times you have
. Go home with it , and please your wife withal . About your supper time I'll visit
you , And then receive my money for the bracelet . Ant . of Syr . I pray you , sir ...
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Page 32 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 42 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword: The expectancy and rose of the fair state. The glass of fashion, and the mould* of form, The observed of all observers...
Page 80 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Page 20 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porcupine...
Page 21 - Haste me to know it; that I, with wings as swift As meditation, or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Page 23 - Do not swear at all ; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Page 79 - Alas ! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy ; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Page 26 - Sweet, so would I : Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow. That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Page 37 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 55 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
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| Title | The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket ... Volumes 1-25 of British theatre Volume 1 of The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket, Mrs. Inchbald |
| Author | Mrs. Inchbald |
| Editor | Mrs. Inchbald |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
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